moped

From mope +‎ -ed.

• Rhymes: -əʊpt
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊpt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: mōpt, IPA^(key): /moʊpt/

moped

1. simple past and past participle of mope

moped (comparative more moped, superlative most moped)

1. Melancholic, dejected.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition iii, section 1, member 2:

     it so far troubles them, that they become quite moped many times, and so disheartened, dejected, they dare not come abroad […]

Borrowed from Swedish moped.

• mo-ped

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.pɛd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: mōʹpĕd, IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.pɛd/

moped (plural mopeds)

2. A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

   He took his moped into work.

• scooter

• moped on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mopéd (less common)

Borrowed from Swedish moped.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmopɛt]
• Hyphenation: mo‧ped

moped m inan

1. moped

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• “moped”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “moped”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “moped”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Swedish moped.

moped m (definite singular mopeden, indefinite plural mopeder, definite plural mopedene)

1. a moped

• mopedist

• “moped” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Swedish moped.

moped m (definite singular mopeden, indefinite plural mopedar, definite plural mopedane)

1. a moped

• mopedist

• “moped” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English moped.

moped n (plural mopeduri)

1. moped

Blend of motor +‎ pedaler (“pedals”). Coined by motor journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952 in the magazine Motor from tramp-cykel med motor och pedaler ("bicycle with engine and pedals").

• IPA^(key): /mʊˈpeːd/
• Rhymes: -eːd

moped c

1. a moped (vehicle)

   Synonym: (colloquial) moppe

   Det är kul att åka moped

   It's fun to ride a moped

• mopedist
• EU-moppe

• → English: moped

• motorcykel (“motorcycle”)

• moped in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• moped in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)